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Date: 1800-1900
Language: Greek
Origin: xylon 'wood' + phone 'voice, sound'

xylophone

noun
     
xylophone
xy‧lo‧phone [countable]
APM a musical instrument which consists of metal or wooden bars of different lengths that you hit with a special stick [↪ glockenspiel]
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